Comment by rgoulter

I read "out of box" as meaning "has sensible defaults, can be used 'out of the box' without configuration".

I've never seen it used to mean "preinstalled on most systems". Although e.g. people like vi keybindings because vi is preinstalled on most systems.

Either way, I think you can argue for workstations, it's worth configuring software to your liking, and worth installing software that helps you be productive.

Though, the only software I've seen people excuse for having 'bad defaults' have been things like vim, emacs, tmux.